I’m shook. I just discovered I might have been drinking feces the past few years, and my world has never felt like more of a lie. For pretty much my entire adulthood, I’ve operated under the belief that you almost never need to clean a water glass....
I am, by my own admission, a terrible (but improving!) texter. Receiving a text almost always feels like an imposition to me, and nowhere does text feel like a bigger intrusion than when I’m at work. It doesn’t matter if I’m engaged in a legitimate heads-down jam...
A couple of months ago, we shared a rather innocuous comic about running out of toilet paper while on the toilet: One Facebook user, however, was baffled that the man in the comic had his pants around his ankles while on the commode, and his comment launched an uproarious...
Last week, a listener of Dan Savage’s hit advice podcast Savage Love called in with a dilemma that will sound all-too-familiar for any post-collegiate American male: A guy makes a dude friend in college, and their relationships revolves primarily around partying, trying to meet women and making...
“When it rains, it pours,” a friend once told me. Sure, it’s a cliché, but it seemed appropriate at the time. In particular, we were discussing the alternating phenomenon of the “hot streak” and the “dry spell.” During a hot streak, you can seemingly do no wrong...
The most withering personal critique I’ve ever received was when a female roommate told me I was “tidy, but not clean.” For years, I’d been operating under the delusion that I was a Clean Person, and a rare exception to the (mostly true) stereotype of the “adult...
Trust me, I get how unbelievably complicated the answer is — despite the question’s very straightforward construction. Because when it comes to dumping someone over their debt, you’re dealing with the intersection of personal finance and personal relationships — two areas that are equally wrought with anxiety, confusion and simmering resentment....
Republican Virginia Congressman Thomas Garrett has a radical solution for the nation’s student-loan debt crisis: Forgive people’s student-loan debts, so long as they agree to delay when they start collecting Social Security benefits. Specifically, Garrett wants to grant debt holders $550 in student loan forgiveness for each...
The tech startup era has gifted us with an abundance of ridiculous job titles, including Chief Happiness Officer, Hacker in Residence and Galactic Viceroy of Research Excellence. The absurdity on display here would have you believe job titles are superficial (meaningless, even!), but for many professionals, that...
When I was a dumb 22-year-old working my first job out of college, I got assigned to sit within 10 feet of the startup’s founder/CEO. It was miserable. Aside from absolutely hating the work I was doing, I had to sit under the watchful eye of the guy who...
I saw a post on Reddit’s super-popular personal finance forum earlier today that made my eyes bleed and my heart cry. “Friend declined pay raise because he’d ‘make less money,’” the post reads. That much is pretty self-explanatory, but to briefly summarize: A man relays the story...
Twitter user @horchatata had her 15 seconds of internet fame earlier this week when she tweeted a screenshot of this excellent Reddit thread from Sunday: In short, a woman discovers her boyfriend of five years sleeping in bed with another woman, and rather than wake and confront...